Bob Dylan





Directions: Use the following questions and resources to learn more about your individual. Take careful notes; you may not simply cut and paste from the Internet into your notes. Keep careful track of your sources for your Works Cited. Based on your research, you will create a profile of your individual to share with the class. This profile should provide basic background information on your individual and provide an overview of his/her stance on our main questions: where is the U.S. headed from here? what are the primary issues/concerns facing our nation? how would deal with these issues and concerns?

Guiding Questions
  • What was happening with music in the 1960s? Who was the primary audience for this music? (consider a brief overview of both rock and folk music--Dylan spans both).
  • What role did music play in the protest movements of the time? the Civil Rights Movement? the counter culture movement? the anti-war movement?



  • How did Dylan's music reflect events at the time?
    • Cuban Missile Crisis: "A Hard Rain is A-Gonna Fall"
    • James Meredith: "Oxford Town'
    • "How many roads must a man go down"
    • John Kennedy's assassination: "'The Times They are A-Changin"
    • "Like a Rolling Stone"
    • "You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know which way the wind blows"

Resources

http://books.google.com/books?id=T8cp7NvcGxoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=related:ISBN0802138918#v=onepage&q=&f=false


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